Sun Update Connection - Enterprise 1.0 Quick Start Guide: Getting Started

Register With Vendors for Authentication

Sun Update Connection – Enterprise enables you to download software components from vendor sources. For example, if your environment includes managed hosts that run the Solaris OS or a Linux distribution, you need to be able to retrieve software from the appropriate vendor source. Sun Update Connection – Enterprise determines which software distributions apply to your environment by evaluating the agents that you have installed on your managed hosts. Sun Update Connection - Enterprise needs authentication information for each distribution that is associated with vendor web sites.

To download software components from some of the vendor sources, you must first register with that source. The registration process sets up an account with a user name and password. Then the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise software can successfully access binaries from this source. To access software components from these sources, you must have a valid account. For example, you must be registered with Sun Update Connection to obtain Solaris updates and baselines.

If you have distribution sources without the appropriate authentication information, you can add the user name and password the next time you log in to the console. You must log in to the console as the admin user or as a user with full permissions. After you log in the Authentication window opens. For example, if you have a Solaris agent installed and no authentication information has been supplied, the Authentication window automatically opens so that you can specify the user name and password you created when you registered with SunSolve^SM. Another example is if you later install an agent on a Red Hat Linux system, the Authentication window opens to request authentication information for that source the next time you log in to the console. If the console is already started, you can edit the Authentication window. See To Change User Name and Password for Authentication.

Not all distributions require authentication to access binaries from the vendor source. Sun Update Connection – Enterprise contacts the following vendor sources to obtain binaries. Table 2–12 provides registration sites and addresses for vendor sources.

Table 2–12 Authenticating and Registering With Vendor Sources


Vendor Source	Authorization Required?	Registration Sites
Solaris update and baselines are available from SunSolve.	Yes	`http://sunsolve.sun.com`
Red Hat Linux binaries are available from the Red Hat Network.	Yes	`http://rhn.redhat.com`
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server binaries	Yes	`http://sdb.suse.de//download`
SUSE binaries	No	Obtain from ftp://ftp.suse.com

To Change User Name and Password for Authentication

This procedure provides steps to change the user name and password to match those you registered with at the vendor web sites. Use this procedure if you are logged in to the console.

In the console window, choose Authentication from the Tools menu.

The Authentication window is displayed.

To open the Authentication Editor window, select the source and click Edit.

Type the user name and password.

The Authentication Editor does not verify that the information you supply is correct. Therefore, ensure that you specify the exact user name and password that the vendor source needs, or the software download fails.